Experience that views the organization as a system that learns and develops through people, culture, and practice.
Prof. Dr. Zaki bin Shakir Siddiqi is an academic and consultant in organizational learning, organizational culture, and organizational development, with extensive experience in university education, research, consulting, academic leadership, strategic planning, and work with institutions across multiple sectors.
His work is grounded in scientific evidence and contemporary practices adapted to local and cultural context. He focuses on developing how individuals and teams think, learn, and deal with problems, decisions, and change.
An extensive academic and research career combining teaching, higher education development, and scientific research.
He progressed through academic work from the early 1990s, taught a wide range of management courses, and contributed to research, academic supervision, and higher education development in Saudi Arabia and abroad.
University Career
Worked at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals and later Umm Al-Qura University, progressing through academic and leadership responsibilities.
International Research Experience
Undertook research experiences at Newcastle University and the University of Wales in the United Kingdom.
Management Teaching
Taught more than twenty courses in organizational behavior, planning, strategy, change, human resources, quality, leadership, and related fields.
Research & Academic Supervision
Supervised research in educational leadership and teacher performance development and served as an external examiner for numerous master’s theses.
Leadership experience in strategic planning and the development of scientific research, systems, and university practices.
Experience combining executive advisory work, strategic planning, system development, and leadership of multidisciplinary teams.
He held academic and administrative responsibilities including adviser to the President of Umm Al-Qura University, adviser to the Vice President for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, and assistant vice president, and participated in councils, committees, and initiatives to develop graduate studies, research, curricula, and research chairs.
Advised leaders at Umm Al-Qura University and contributed to development initiatives related to research, graduate studies, and institutional work.
Led the team preparing Umm Al-Qura University’s scientific research strategic plan, involving more than sixty male and female members from diverse disciplines.
Established and followed up the Scientific Research Coordinating Council initiative to strengthen integration among research entities within the university.
Contributed to the strategic plan for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques and to the development of university systems, regulations, practices, and initiatives.
Cross-sector consulting experience in organizational learning, organizational development, culture, and leadership.
Worked with university, industrial, and commercial entities, providing consulting aimed at building a culture of continuous learning, developing organizations and work environments, and connecting strategy with behavior and daily practice.
Integrated expertise that helps organizations learn, adapt, lead, and improve practice sustainably.
Organizational Learning
Building systems and practices that help organizations learn from experience and turn knowledge into continuous improvement.
Organizational Culture
Diagnosing and developing values, behaviors, and patterns that influence performance and the work environment.
Organizational Development
Developing organizations by linking structure, culture, leadership, and behavior to the required change.
Systems Thinking
Understanding relationships, recurring patterns, and root causes of complex problems before designing interventions.
Strategic Planning
Building plans and initiatives and linking objectives with institutional work, follow-up, and performance.
Leadership & Change Management
Developing leaders and teams and strengthening change management, motivation, decision-making, and trust.
Higher Education Development
Designing learning based on participation, problems, experience, projects, and case studies.
Teamwork & Conflict Resolution
Building more effective teams and improving communication, relationship management, and conflict resolution in the workplace.
Delivered programs and consulting on the learning organization and how to build environments that benefit from experience and continuously improve practice.
Worked on culture, work environment, values, behavior, trust-building, and their relationship to institutional performance.
Delivered workshops on systems thinking and mental models to understand complex problems and recurring organizational patterns.
Delivered programs on leadership, motivation, team building, problem solving, decision-making, conflict management, and communication.
Delivered programs on strategic planning, balanced scorecards, quality, human resources, and project management.
Applied cooperative, problem-based, project-based, modeling, and case-study learning to connect education with life and work.
Scientific output linking learning, leadership, and organizational culture with innovation and application.
Published and participated in research and conferences addressing problem-based learning, leadership, organizational culture, and beneficiary experience improvement.
Holds six U.S.-registered patents in the environmental field, reflecting an applied dimension of his research experience.
Received the Almarai Award for Creative Research, while several of his students achieved recognition in scientific innovation competitions.
Presented a model on the dynamics of gratitude and building well-being at an international psychiatry conference, alongside programs in group counseling and mental health.